The last couple of months have seen heated competition between Intel and AMD with great offerings from both sides, albeit with Intel maybe having an edge thanks to excellent performance overall, ...

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AMD’s follow-up, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, is technically faster, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart when you’re ...

At CES earlier this month, AMD announced the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, a more wallet-friendly take on its $700 9950X3D. The company ...

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D mostly does what it says it does: It’s a mild speed bump to AMD’s best gaming processor that, in most ...

Today, Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) is releasing its 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs and PC enthusiasts will be particularly keen on the Core i9-11900K, Core i7-11700K and Core i5-11600K and how they stack up ...

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Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake processors are ushering in a new era of desktop computing. It’s the first time we’re seeing a hybrid architecture from a slot-in CPU, and it marks a shift in leadership at ...

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The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is a lightly souped-up version of the existing 9800X3D—same core and thread counts, TDP, and base clock speed, but with a higher boost clock. Its MSRP also climbs slightly—$499 ...

With a clock speed bump and... not much else, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D still manages to impress as the fastest gaming CPU ...